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Walter Christaller  

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  • Before the German geographer Walter Christaller's central place theory (1933), urban places were viewed in isolation from one another, as unique single entities, differentiated by their position in a hierarchy based on population size. Christaller's dissertation, Die zentralen Orte in Süddeutschland, broke from this prevailing view. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Christaller, Walter (1893–1969)]

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